Character from The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
The Forsaken healer-turned-torturer — she has the most complete understanding of the human body in history and uses it to cause pain with surgical precision.
Semirhage was Nemene Damendar Boann — the Age of Legends' greatest Healer. She turned to the Shadow when she was caught torturing patients for pleasure, preferring the Dark One's service to the alternative of being severed from the Source. She is terrifying because her cruelty is precise, clinical, and systematic — she doesn't rage, she operates. She destroyed the Seanchan imperial family, captured Rand and forced him to channel the True Power, and was only stopped when Rand accessed something darker than her own malice. She represents the horror of expertise turned to evil — a healer who understands pain better than anyone alive.
Tall, dark-skinned, and regal — she carries herself with the clinical calm of a surgeon even when inflicting agony. She dresses in black and her expression rarely changes. She looks at people the way a doctor looks at an anatomy chart.
Also known as: Semirhage, Anath Dorje, Lady of Pain